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Corporate Baseball’s “Feeble” Gesture to Negro Leagues
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
29 Dec 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · Corporate Baseball’s “Feeble” Gesture to Negro Leagues

Major League Baseball’s recent moves to recognize the contributions of the Negro league teams they once excluded amount to only “the beginning stages of any kind of restitutive or reparative justice and wouldn’t even come close to restoring” the Black players and teams to their proper place in history, said Josh Myers, professor of Afro American Studies at Howard University. “Baseball was not just a pastime for Black people,” said Myers. “It was on the baseball diamond where community was forged, where people came together” during American apartheid.

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